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by asadotzler 4mo ago
This take I can get behind. Google's leadership has been total garbage for at least 15 years. My experience as an employee of one of Google's closest business partners was that it started going south in 2008-ish and was certifiab
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by asadotzler 4mo ago
"My third grade class all got perfect scores on the standardized test. Yes, I did have them each copy my correct answers, but I don't volunteer that information because it's much better for me if people believe I'm a gre
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by asadotzler 4mo ago
If you're just watching movies or need a big virtual monitor, and you've got a smartphone on you, you're better off with something like XREALs that cost 1/6th as much, weigh 1/10th as much and look like a dorky pair
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by asadotzler 4mo ago
Beyond 2 has almost none of the sensor suite, no eye tracking, no meaningful compute, no pass-through video, no inside-out tracking, no gesture control, and requires two to three entirely separate units set up around the room to do any outs
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by asadotzler 4mo ago
Vision Pro's top talent all moved with their boss, Mike Rockwell, to Siri where they have at least a prayer of promotions, not to mention the satisfaction of working on a product that's not a miserable failure in the market. Apple
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by asadotzler 4mo ago
It's literally half-Retina visual fidelity. I couldn't stand reading text on it for more than a few minutes.
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by asadotzler 4mo ago
A tethered virtual monitor wouldn't be a PC, it'd be a PC peripheral. Cook wanted a PC platform and app store he could call his own, so we got this 1.5 pound strap-on facial PC instead of a really nice virtual display. Also, it do
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by asadotzler 5mo ago
In 2025, SpaceX put 3,200 Starlink satellites into orbit with 122 Falcon 9 launches. That's about 2,000 tonnes. In about 2 more years, as the Starlink constellation reaches its licensed size limit, it should transition from growth mode
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by asadotzler 5mo ago
I do this, and it's got some utility some of the time. It's hardly a must-have, and if it cost me money I wouldn't pay for it.
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by asadotzler 5mo ago
Women couldn't have bank accounts, in my lifetime.
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by asadotzler 5mo ago
It's quite normal because they do have inventory problems because component suppliers are stretched ridiculously thin. Apple, the master of one of the biggest tech hardware supply chains in the world, couldn't get Sony to step up
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by asadotzler 5mo ago
Yeah, Starlink is about 3.5x the space launch revenue but still only about 0.5x in terms of profit. Falcon 9 is as optimized as a rocket could be, and absolutely owns the market. Starlink is a mostly rural service with global consumer prici
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by asadotzler 5mo ago
SpaceX isn't what it once was, but its Starlink division has grown from 50k users to 12 million in 5 just years. We don't have good public numbers, but that should be over $13B in revenue and about $2B of income over the last 12 m
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by asadotzler 5mo ago
Also, a bucket for VC to put all that NFT, IoT, blockchain, VR investment into. VCs gonna VC and the last 15 years of bets failed so the last few years have been a transition away from those toward "the next thing".
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by asadotzler 5mo ago
"Sold out" is mostly meaningless if we don't know the inventory they moved. Perhaps 5,000 units have rolled off the line over the last week and those all sold. Or maybe 200,000 sold out in one day. We simply don't know w
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by asadotzler 5mo ago
We're only hearing about the failed projects? I call BS. Precisely the oppositee is both true and obvious if you're not a shill. The "successful" ones are being trotted out all the time trying to convince us how great it
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by asadotzler 5mo ago
Audio input is far more commonly used by people with mobility difficulties. Imagine that your hands shake a lot or that you don't have limbs. That makes using a keyboard and mouse difficult or impossible and voice input can help. Blind
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by asadotzler 5mo ago
We use "disabled people" these days. Or, "people with disabilities." There's debate around person first or not, but I'll leave that to you all to read up one. Regardless of where you come down on DP vs PWD, &qu
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by asadotzler 6mo ago
YES. I should be able to evaluate that, and many supply that. When I buy an iPhone I can see exactly what Apple's recycling and use of recycled materials looks like, for example. Environmental impact doesn't only happen within the
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by asadotzler 6mo ago
Almost certainly it's energy density for long running, high load usage. If a family car energy usage is 1x, then a light duty truck is about 1.5x, and a heavy duty truck doing hauling or towing is about 4x. A medium sized farm tractor
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by asadotzler 6mo ago
Your nose is literally a special flower. What smells good to it may not to another and vice versa. I far prefer the smell of pot smoke on the sidewalk to the smell of tobacco smoke. You youngsters missed the years of indoor workplace smokin
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by asadotzler 6mo ago
See also, cigarettes, cigars, and pipe smoking. I find those smells about 10x as offensive as smoked weed. I don't see the HN crowd coming out against tobacco despite these two being roughly equivalent in use. And that 20 ft from the
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by asadotzler 6mo ago
Until we start throwing cigar, pipe, and cigarette smokers in prison for smoking where I can smell it, I'm totally okay smelling some pot. The playing field needs to be leveled.
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by asadotzler 7mo ago
You cannot. An app can update just like a browser tab. In fact, a very many apps are just frickin' webviews.
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by asadotzler 7mo ago
Hard to believe when most apps are just a webview.
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by asadotzler 7mo ago
Seeking is not getting, not even close. Suggesting it is only supports their propaganda and adds momentum to their bogus race to a cash grab.
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by asadotzler 7mo ago
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by asadotzler 7mo ago
The success of the war depends on the approval ratings of the US president which will almost certainly take hits when US military takes hits so the US citizens seeing the US military taking hits at a higher rate than relatively recent wars
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by asadotzler 7mo ago
75 million using the YouGov number and just under 100 million using the Nate Silver average. (I think you must have used the more Trump-favorable number AND included children in your computation, which is not reasonable.) Also worth noting
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by asadotzler 7mo ago
No one wants to wear a PC on their faces. The few who did wanted that for games but Zuck wanted a social VR platform, not a third-rate gaming console. Games couldn't even bring in the numbers needed to pivot anyone to social so they

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